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X AUU A w. Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-iiass matter at toet office in Aobeville, S. C. j ./ Tinu of Snbacriptioas One Year $2.00 Six months $1.0# Three months .50 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1921 A WRONG CONCLUSION. The Abbeville Medium has discov . ered evidence, it says, that it has a circulation. It has made this discov ery in this wise, it says: It finds that for a period of thirty days it has car . rjed a certain <number of lines of "want advertsements" more than the / number carried by the Press- and Banner. (When a man wants to brag on himself he always compares him ; self with a big institution.) The Me dium says that when a reader of & certain paper wants anything he makes his wants known in the paper which he repds, and it draws the con N elusion that therefore there are^nore . people who read the Medium than there are those who read the Press and Baqner; or rather it seeks to have its readers draw that inference. The conclusions * of the Medium are entirely illogical, it seems to us. The subscription lists of the two pa i . S e pers, we should think, show which of the papers published at Abbeville has the:larger number of subscribers. When the Medium man has his count ing clothes on again we shall be glad v ' 'to compare these lists with him and r publish the results. The want columns . ' ? of the paper show, not the number of subscribers of the paper, but the number of those subscribers who are in-want of something. We are willing to admit that there are more' readers of the Medium in want of something v than there are like readers of ^ this paper. If all the subscribers of the Medium who are'in want should ad m ?-S-? vertise their kwants in the Medium's i , want columns there would be no room in the next issue to tell about the Junior and Senior Deacons?be ; * , cause all the readers of the Medium are in want?of p. good newspaper like The Press and Banner. - THE DEATH OF VAUGHN The following editorial is taken from The State of Monday. So far as we have heard opinions expressed, i^is in line with the general opinion as expressed by others. It says: "Not/often is a white man of education executed'for a capital crime in South Carolina, and, though the offense- of- T. U. VaUghn was one of extreme heinousness, he escaped the elec tric chair, "Nevertheless his death was a vindication of the law. In his case the prosecution, though long drawn out and tedious, was un relenting ancj his escape from the ' fegal penalty was no more than , . technical. He died ?or his crime, and, though he was not legally i executed, his death was volun tary x only in a strained and narrow sense of the word. Sel . dom has any man clung to life more persistently or given great er evidence of the love of it. To every possible device to avoid the consequences of his deed he had recourse and he illustrated , a perseverance that did not fall short of being remarkable. But, after 10 years, not literally but not less truly, he 'came to the end of his rope' and for no other reason than that the state of South Carolina, through its peace- officers, was not less per severing than he was. "His fate is as well calculated to deter others from the com mission of capital crimes as though he had died in the South Carolina penitentiary, and not in * a Florida jail." There will be those, of course, who will blame the courts, the judges and the lawyers for the law's delays in this case. It is now apparent to every one that Vaughn was not insane, or not so insane that he was not re-p sponsible in the law for the crimes he ^ committed. But where human life is 1 at stake, even the life of a person rVia'rtfPfl with a heinous offense, the authorities cannot fre too careful. We feel that in the Vaughn case the law has been vindicated, more fully vin- \ dicated than had Vaughn been de nied a hearing, and investigation in 1 thp matter,of Ms sanity. There would have been some, had he been imme diately executed, who would not have been satisfied as to his sanity. Now all doubt is removed, and the prison- ^ er, as The State says, dies at the j hands of the" law. . . j - It is true'that Vaughn lived a long - time. But when we remember that < all tfrisHiitoe he was sane, and that < even' Wtien 'h^' was free, he was. har- 1 assed notT only by a consciousness of 1 his guilt^ biit' ^y fear that he would ' one. captured, " and that the ' end would come either in the' electric 3 chair .of by his own hand, in the one , way or r$e other as surely as night ( follows, day, we may wonder, wh^n : Vaughn in the last few days of his . life <;ontemf>liated it all, whether he ] did not see that it wouia nave ueeu better had it ended in! the beginning, i i ... . " *: Certainly there is nothing in the < years he has since lived to incite : others to tfie^commission of crime, | nor to lead others to think that a guilty man may at-last escape. If every man guilty of crime came so near to reaping his just deserts as did Vaughn, we might think the law was more ikearly satisfied in all cases., SOUND THE CHARGE! (Manufacturers' Record.) "Beat a retreat," said Napoleon to a drummer; boy, when in one of his battles he felt that he was losing and that his army must retrefct in order to be saved. "Sire," said the drummer boy, "I have never learned to beat a retreat, rfut I can beat a march that will make the dead arise and fight." He received permission from the General to beat a march, into which he threw "his very soul. The tired, weary, almost de> felted soldiers caught tfye inspiration -1? ?? ??<1 ttri+Vi nom nnorlrj OI tlie cnaigc, anu njvu ??WT? ? e.^ and quickened fire of body and spirit rushed once more to the battle and < won a great victory. i The people of this country feel that they have been almost defeated; dis couragement fills their minds and hearts. The power of the enemy has almost reached the limit of their en durance.\ They have been beating a retreat, but the time has come to beat , a march and catch that new inspira. . tion which Napoleon's soldiers felt at the stirring music brought forth by ( the indomitable drummer boy who , knew not how to beat a retreat. Every man who is pessimistic, or , who permits the discouragements of i the hour to dominate him, is beating . a retreat. He ig not only beating a j retreat for his own busine&s, but he , is beating a retreat for all with whom, < he comes in touch. The time has ?>m& , ( beat a march, to sound the charge, j to quicker! thc'Iife blood of the na tion once more, and out of the appar- j ent defeat of the last twelve months j rally for a new charge, a new crea,-. fcive neriod of work and enit*v,. * .... x- 1 getting the thin** that ate bahind, ( we must press forward With greater energy to overcome the* difficulties ( which as a nation we have had to face. Every man who draws within his business shell, every man who can- , eels his contracts or pessimistcally , refuses to do business because of , fear of the future, is beating a re treat. - * Every man who goes ahead, who ( has the optimism of the drummer boy and a spirit which dares to do things, is beating a march on to victory. . If throughout the entire nation there can be rekindled the drummer boy's fire, we shall soon have opti mism and sunshine and prosperity, where today there is pessimism and doubt and despair. It was the drummer boy whose work inspired the great Napoleon and his troops. It must be the drum mer Doy 01 tne Dusiness worm, ine farmer and the small merchant, and the individual business man, who , beats the march and sounds the charge rather than the great business leaders who have halted so long. The oWs who have suffered must < be the ones to dare and do the most. < The men who would beat a march < on to victory over the threatened dis-'. ister which they have so lonjj faced c vill be the red-blooded men who know 1 ;hat the nation cannot stand still and i svho are determined to lead the ? :harge. 1 * 1 The pessimist is the shirker." . The optimist is the burden-bearer, t The nessimist is the man who beats l the retreat. ' The optimist is the man who sounds the charge. WHICH ARE YOU? . . v' . THE GREAT SEAL AGAIN Last night's Associated Press dis patches corrected the assertion made Friday that the death of James Jones negro body servant of Jefferson Da vis has removed, the possibility of as iertaining the whereabouts of i;he Confederate Great Seal, the correc tion being in the form of a positive statement from Richmond that uhe Great Seal was in the Confederate Museum;there and that it had been identified by J. and S. Wyon, of Lon don, who made it for the Confederate States government. It is further stat ed that the Jones story had long^been regarded as a myth in Richmond.^ Yesterday's North Carolina papers had long stones on wis ?iame:j jones who, it appears, was a native of Nolrth Carolina*. The Greensboro News play ed it tip strong under headlines "Car- ] ries To His Grave Secret of .the Ssal < of Confederacy/'Adding later in its ] headlines that he was faithful to the test, would be buried in Raleigh ami , so on. Jones, one learns from ireading , this long sketch, was a native of W ar- \ ren county?that is where they tad* ; so much trouble some months ligc?* . and after a brief experience in Ral- 1 eigh, turned Republican and went to , Washington where he had held on for ' years as a messenger in the Senate's stationery, room. The News said "Throughout, his long life Jones would never reveal What become of the Confederacy's Great Seal. "Marae Jeff" had hid it and had told James never to tell where?and he never ' did. Veterans of both sides, newspa permen by the dozens, curio hunter and what not besought tym time after time to tell but he never would tell. The reason evidently was of the best. He never told because he had nothing to tell. x Our reference yesterday afternoon to one theory of its fate was mafe be fore the correction came from Rich mond and was based on a statement in a letter written bv the late Col. W. H. Parker, of Abbeville, and fur ther backed up by a statement in a sketch of Hon. Judah P. Benjamin ( that he was the man who actually did the defacing of the seal and dropped it in Savannah river. If, however, the seal is in the Confederate Muse am in Richmond and it evidently is there, there'is an end not only of the James Jones story but also of the defacing and dropping into the river 3tory. * ... It may be of some interest to recall nore of the statement by the late Col. W. H. Parker, one of the most estirn ible of men. and one who was noted :or his extreme care and caution in nakypg statements. The late W. P. Calhoun, Esq., Qf Abbeville, started iuite a controversy some years ago n putting forward Abbeville's claim is the last meeting place of the Con federate cabinet. The claim <ra8 dis . . IT >uteq Dy vy asmr^on, Ua. In tfte imass >f evidence collected by Mr. Calhoun wa3 a letter from Colk Parker or rath jd ?Mr. Parker" AS most of his old j frieftds and clients in this section :alle<i him. According to Mr. Parker, President ' Jeff Davis was entertained, in the i home of Hon. Armistead Burt while ( the members of the cabinet who we re with him, viz: Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Mallory, Mr. Reagan and Gen. Breck enridge were entertained in the home of .Mr. T. C. Perrin, prominent law yer of the Abbeville Bar and at' oqe time president of the Greenville .and Columbia railroad. Mr. Parker's statement on the Great Seal is, in his own words, as follows: "I have heard from Mr. Perrin aid members'of his family that the dis posal of the Confederate Seal ofj State was discussed at his house af terwards .(after the last meeting of the cabinet in the Burt house) and he (Mr. Perrin) advised that the seal be defaced and thrown into the Sa vannah river which they would cross on their way to Washington. It was not known whether this was done or not.', This is all Mr. Parker says on the subject of the Seal. The opinion or belief that this was actually done came from such a statement in a sketch of Mr. Benjamin which cannot, j just now, be located. If the makers I >f the Seal have identified the one in Richmond as the original that will end ill speculation and conjecture. The Fames Jones story has been exploded ong, long ago. Mr. Parker further on in his letter stated that General Breckenridge eat ip all night in his room in the Per nn home writing discharges of other japers for members of the. escort, rhe party was escorted by a rather :onsiderable body of cavalry. The force was reduced daily by illness, iesertions and discharge's. Mr. Park ;r says a Kentucky regiment, or c remnant of it,, rode back under a ivhite flag from Savannah river to ward Abbeville intending to surren ier to a Yankee force which they had aeard had reached Abbeville in pur suit. There was no such force there md they scattered, each man for hiin jelf. . . , i . * Along with the story of the Greal Seal there were many stories of what became of the Confederate gold. The imount was greatly magnified. And in addition to this many other stories were created as to who got it and sc ind so on. That story can wait foi mother time.?Index-Journal. SELLING HOOSIERS. I . The Corn, had a eood stock ol Hoosi&r Kitchen' Cabinets on handt svhen deflation struck the 'country He' concluded that everybody was a; poor as he Is and that none of th< down-trodden men would purchase t :abinet for the good wives at hom< Until times ;?ot better. But Sergeant' Roy Power and Sam McCuen had i few ideas of their own on the subject They told the Corp. that if he woul( only run a little advertising campa:gi in the Press and-Banner, they woul< do the rest. The Corp', had had i Hoosier week once before and sol< thirteen Hoosiers, but he said nothing like that could be done now, but h( was willing to "try it cnce" he said. So Friday afternoon theJ first ad vettisement of the Hosiers, on th< ( regular Hoosier installment plan appeared in this papter. Saturda; morning the: good women of the cit: were reading about them, and by clos ing time Saturday night five of then had gone out. The second advertise mon> o nnoa'/od in fViio no nor MnnHiii 1A4VA1W MWV? VlttW afternoon, and by Tuesday after noon five more had gone out to mak< that many homes happy. The Corp. walked down Tuesday afternoon as Serg. McCuen was load ing two, and yelled out, in his mos The I in an * IS to be I ERE is will d especi the va that are corres the very best v reached the ul est values in n< vice consider* We als< of sumr on clisp mo?t e? styles fc Pt military language, "Look here Sam, 1 don't sell all them cabinets until I i set aside one for Big Sister. They I seem to he going so well that I be lieve I jtfll buy one myself." The sale is still going on. There are > only a few more of these cabinets . which will be sold on the plan of a dollar down and a dollar a week. , When these are gone, the regular terms of the store, where a consider s able payment is required on deliv , ery, will be adhered to. If you ara thinking of putting in ,{a Hoosier and of thereby promoting ^peace and good-feeling at home and want to do it in a way that will en able you to have one of these fine cabinets on terms which will make you think someone has made you a present, it will pay you to call on one of these officers at the "Buy Now, Pay Later" headquarters before the end of the present week. "RENDER UNTd CAESAR" "Everybody's doing it"; that. is. having, "plays". Even Due West has succumbed to the prevailing epi demic; but, as might "be expected, makes a serious thing out of it, and its first play has the' sober and sClemn title of ""The Importance Of Bemg JSarn^at*?dewberry Ubser-| ver. """ *'' "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's"?Bro.A Wallace? You evidently'didn't finish reading the advertisement of the above comedy. This was an Abbeville High School ' production and a very creditable one. We will be glad to go to Newberry with the "Impor tance of Being Earnest" if the Ob server will guarantee expenses. NOTICE! TEACHERS EXAMINATION The regular spring teachers exami nation will be held in the County Court House on Saturday May 7th between the hours of 9 A. M. and 4 P. M. Every teacher holding a temporary permit for the scholastic year of 1920 and 1921 and expiring June 30th, 1921 is urged to take this examina tion. ; The usual first-grade * and third f grade certificates will be issued by - the State Board of Examiners, Col " umbia, S. C. , I By order of the State Board of 1 Education. **- . W.J.EVANS, t 4, 13-3^ Co. Supt. of Education. Seasons ixclusive line of materi to-wear for ladies wl Found at Th % y a special showing of new elight the woman who wi tally gay and pleasing. . ilues are unprecedently \ spondingly low. Always alue for the least possible ;most limit in these offeri] ew merchandise, price, q ) announce the early ner wear which we are lay and which repres xlusive models of the >r the coming season ulson & Hei OFFfcR REWARDS . '/\ FOR WILLIAMS' SONS Five Hundred Dollars for Apprehen ion of Men Wanted On The Murder Charge*. Atlanta, April 12.?Rewards of $500 each for the .apprehension of Huland, Leroy and Marvin Williams, who, with their father, John S. Wil- ' liams, and Clyde Manning, negro were indicted yesterday in Jasper county charged with the murder of negroes were offered today by Gov ernor Dorsey. Announcement that Manning, who :s under three murder indictments in Newton, where the elder Williams was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, would be tried early in May, was made tonight by Solici tor General Brand. " w . N O T I C E. * State of South 'Carolina, County of Abbeville. Take hotice that- bids wiU be re ceived by tile undersigned .at the of - fice of the County Supervisor in the I Court House at Abbeville, S. C., at eleVen o'clock A. M. April 26th, for a loan of'Thirty Thousand (|90,000.) Dollars to Abbeville County, to be used in payment of ordinary expenses of the County, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, and being under . authority of Section 1001 of Volume 1, Code of Laws, 1912, and amenda tory Acts thereto. Loan to mature March 15th, 1922. The undersigned will pledge them selves to deposit the proceeds of the loan with the Bank making the same and there to remain until withdrawn in Ihe ordinary coarse of business, provided a better rate of interest can. be secured by so doing. - "Right is reserved to reject any or all bids. \ L. w. Keller, i-4 Supervisor, Abbeville Co. J. E. Jones, ' , g Treasurer, Abbeville Co April 11th, 1921. W. A. HARRIS FUQIERAL SUPPLIES EMBALMING . and Auto Hearse Service phones o. Day 395 Night 134 r materials that shes something And better still ligh for prices striving to give > price, we have tigs, of the high uality and ser showing ^ placing ;ents the : assured